On Mar 2, 6:51*pm, "David G. Nagel" wrote:
Ken Slimmer wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:46:21 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Ken Slimmer
writes
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:28:42 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Ken Slimmer
writes
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:53:38 -0800, D. Stussy wrote:

Stupid idea. *Trees grow and thus move over time. *They're not
stable long enough for construction purposes.
Mark a spot 4-5 feet up on a tree, 20 years later it will still be 4-5
feet from the ground.

But won't the diameter, where you marked, be a lot greater? Anything
tied to the tree will get buried in the wood. Even if you leave 'room
for expansion', this may still happen. A tight loop, buried in the
wood, will also choke off the sap, and possibly kill the part of the
tree above.
Ian;
* * We have used trees as supports for barbed wire by wrapping it
* * around
the tree. *The tree just grew over it, healing itself as it grew around
it.

This indeed can happen. I did say 'possibly'. I have a grape vine
growing up one wall of the house (and, given half a chance, would take
over the other three), and I see it where I have tied it up a bit too
tightly to the support wires. However, I doubt if any plant is as happy,
healthy or strong as it would have been without the strangulation. It's
the sort of thing that needs to be checked every so often, and suitable
adjustments made.

You can't believe how many trees I have cut for firewood and had barbed
wire, nails, even steel posts in them. *

If you want to see someone run. Offer a sawyer a large tree cut from a
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My father in law was an excelent wood craftsman often making things
from wood he had havested.
The first thing he would do before cutting the wood to size is run a
metal detector over it. He had even found large pieces of metal buried
in OSB.

Jimmie

"D. Stussy" wrote in message
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Mounting a garden hose rack isn't the same as anchoring a guy wire for a
50' tower.
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True. I only made that observation for someone who wondered about the
effect of puncturing the tree. (I did it without any problem and maybe
someone else can, too.)

I should have made that clearer.